Category: Ecommerce Comparisons

Online companies rise and fall depending on the quality of search engine optimization.

Let's say you start an online store. The idea rocks, your employees handle customer service like pros, and most of your shipments arrive ahead of schedule. Sounds like a pretty solid start, right?

The only problem lies in the SEO. This hypothetical company has failed to complete research on what it takes to beat out the competition on Google. Therefore, a far less competent company, with sub-par support and a mediocre product beats your company out.

Email marketing is still the most effective way to connect with your customers. Social media and pay per click advertising are both essential parts of the equation, but they can often only go so far. After all, you're not building a community of loyal customers with advertisements on social media or Google. Email marketing is still the way to connect with and engage customers, both new and old. So which email marketing tool is best for you? There are a lot of them out there, but we are going to focus on two of the most popular: Constant Contact and Mailchimp. Let's pit Mailchimp vs. Constant Contact and see how it turns out.

In today’s review showdown, we pit Mad Mimi against MailChimp to see which email provider will prevail. MailChimp is the real OG, having been founded way back in 2001 one and gained a huge user base of over 9 million people. Mad Mini is slightly newer, having kicked off in 2008 and with only 125 000 customers, but may be a better fit than its more famous contender depending on your needs.

If you're someone who has a wonderful idea for a product to sell online, or your current online (or offline) store could use a stronger presence, you are most likely in the market for a new ecommerce platform. Lucky for you, some high-quality options exist (hence this Shopify vs WIX comparison), allowing for you to play around with each and decide which one is right for you.

Shopify is the clear leader in terms of popularity, but WIX also tends to come up in the conversation, since over 68 million users are utilizing the WIX platform. That's not to say that all WIX users are selling items online, but it's worth noting that WIX does indeed provide ecommerce tools that compete with Shopify.

While BigCommerce is certainly a powerful and popular ecommerce platform, there can exist a number of reasons why you might be considering and evaluating alternatives to this platform for creating a new online store or for migrating an existing one. If this is where you are at, you will find my list of top 10 BigCommerce alternatives along with a short review of each to be useful.

When it comes to the matter of ecommerce platforms, BigCartel is definitely one of the big names out there today. Still, the possibility always exists that you may be looking for alternatives to this platform for reasons of your individual needs and/or preferences. To help you out with this, I have listed some 10 platforms with a brief review of each below.

While we simply can't deny the fact that Shopify is at least one of the top ecommerce platforms for creating and managing online stores today, there can exist some reason/s for which you wish to explore its alternatives. No matter why you wish to look at them, here are top 10 Shopify alternatives for your ready reference, with my brief review of each.

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